ABSTRACT
Consistent with the life-design paradigm, career construction theory views career as a project through which to make self and work as a vehicle for imbuing life with meaning and purpose. Using the narrative paradigm, career construction counselling begins with a career construction interview (CCI) comprising six questions about counselling goals, self, setting, story, self-advice and scheme. This chapter presents the mindful of career construction's firm grounding in social constructionism and the life-design paradigm to demonstrate the career construction theory and practice for life design. It focuses on the respective traditions of person-environment (P-E) fit emphasising traits, lifespan development focused on developmental tasks, and narrative focused on life themes and comprehending career as story. Life themes from personal stories in career construction theory hold the private meaning that shapes and explains why individuals act in particular occupational roles and how they express agency to invest in particular occupational pathways.
